Learning about our origins

Next week we will be looking at which countries our families come from.

Here is a very basic family tree Mrs Ware has made.

Her Father Tony came from England when he was 3 years old in 1951. So she is English

On her Mother's side her Grandfather came from Wales in the 1920's so she is Welsh.

Her Grandmother was born in New Zealand but her ancesters came to NZ from Scotland before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, so she is Scottish.

However Mrs Ware was born in New Zealand so she is a KIWI!

ALL BLACKS!!!!

WOW, how exciting was today. We all looked awesome in our 'black out'

First the girls welcomed in Cory Jane and Wyatt Crockett.

Then the Kapa Haka boys did a Haka. The All Blacks told us a bit about themselves and we asked them some questions.

Corey is really funny and a bit silly. What a great day, good luck tomorrow night boys!

Tangrams

Mrs Ware had a fun maths activity for us today.

They are puzzles called Tangrams. The rule is you have to use ALL 7 pieces and you are not alloud to overlap the pieces.

We tried to make the puzzles Mrs Ware on a piece of paper, and some of us made up our own.

Try them at home - goggle Tangram images to see what you can find.

Shapes

This week we started learning about shapes.

Mrs Ware gave us a whole lot of shapes and asked us to put them into groups. It was really interesting because everyone had different ideas. Mrs Ware asked us to explain why we put the shapes together in those groups.

Here are some of our ideas.

Science experiments

Some of our class have bringing in some AMAZING science new recently. Thanks so much to the parents for supporting the kids learning.

Today we had an Ostrich feather, a coconut and a cool experiment.

Here is Grace's milk and soap experiment. Mrs Ware talked about how in an experiment you should only change one thing. Can you try it at home? What one thing would you change?

Here is Mathew's chalk experiment. He thought that the chalk would disolve but it didn't. The chalk in the lemon juice sucked some of the juice up and is now growing funny mould. Maybe that will be our science news next week!

We had a think about all the things that were the same in Mathew's experiment, and what was different. This is what we came up with.